@article{456153,
      author = {Keating, Ann Durkin.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/456153},
      title = {Rising up from Indian country : the battle of Fort  Dearborn and the birth of Chicago /},
      abstract = {In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain  Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people  from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne,  hundreds of miles away. The group included several dozen  soldiers, as well as nine women and eighteen children.  After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked  by five hundred Potawatomi warriors. In under an hour,  fifty-two members of Heald's party were killed, and the  rest were taken prisoner; the Potawatomi then burned Fort  Dearborn before returning to their villages. These events  are now seen as a foundational moment in Chicago's storied  past. With Rising up from Indian Country, noted historian  Ann Durkin Keating richly recounts the Battle of Fort  Dearborn while situating it within the context of several  wider histories that span the nearly four decades between  the 1795 Treaty of Greenville, in which Native Americans  gave up a square mile at the mouth of the Chicago River,  and the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, in which the American  government and the Potawatomi exchanged five million acres  of land west of the Mississippi River for a tract of the  same size in northeast Illinois and southeast Wisconsin.},
      recid = {456153},
      pages = {xxiv, 294 pages :},
}